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The Great Acting Blog: “Steps Towards Actor-Filmmaking”

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] One of the great things about acting (if you're diligent and willing) is that you can improve your work very, very quickly. Why? Because of it's simplicity. The only thing you need in order to act is yourself, you don't need personnel or technology...

The Great Acting Blog: “What Is Going On Here?”

10.04.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Being an actor is about being a student of human behaviour. Actors spend a great deal of their lives analysing scripts, or, to put it another way, they spend a great deal of their lives trying to work-out just what the hell is going on....

The Great Acting Blog: “A Very Physical Challenge”

03.04.2013 , Noirish Project, The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The next work to be done on Noirish Project will be scenes near the end of the film. They aim to show Jimmy's isolation and aimlessness. There will also be no dialogue in these scenes, everything about the character will be shown physically here. Naturally,...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Power Of Idealism – Part 2”

27.03.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Following on from my piece last week on Idealism, I wanted to define better what I thought idealism actually was, and came up with the following; Idealism is belief in an idea, which goes beyond career, or accolade, or material gain, and it is...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Power Of Idealism”

20.03.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Idealism is an extraordinarily powerful thing. It can inspire us to undertake great works, overcome enormous obstacles, and provide our lives with meaning and direction and energy - we all know the feeling when we do something which we truly believe in. And...

The Great Acting Blog: “Use Your Imagination”

13.03.2013 , Noirish Project, The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Work on Noirish Project continues apace...

The Great Acting Blog: “Poetic Acting In Noirish Project”

06.03.2013 , Noirish Project, The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] As many of you probably already know, filming began on Noirish Project recently, and, generally, it went very smoothly. We all had worked together before, and we all wanted to work on this material, which created, despite the early start on a cold...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Are Not Children”

27.02.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] That actors are children, is a myth put about by certain theatre directors, the object of which, is to help those directors maintain a position of power - it functions as a Trojan Horse: the comment is a designed to seem like some...

The Great Acting Blog: “Re-Rehearsals”

25.02.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Production on my new feature film, Noirish Project, will continue through March and April. Meanwhile, a free download of short film, Prelude (To Noirish Project), can be got here. We fully rehearsed scenes last month, only for the shooting of thos...

The Great Actin Blog: “Fear Of Failure”

20.02.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Commitment is a tricky thing. At the moment just before we need to commit, our minds suggest all kinds of alternatives as preferable to the thing we are about to commit to. One of the reasons commitment is so hard, is because we are putting...

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